Over the past decade, YouTube has survived — and thrived — amid dozens of competitors, innumerable copyright threats and a comments section that comprises the bowels of humanity (and that’s according to science).

But consider: YouTube’s won a TIME Magazine “Person of the Year’ award.

A Peabody.

And right now, it regularly wracks up around four billion views. Per day.

So to honor the service, we present YouTube at its best (and worst): a cornucopia of oddball celebrities, snarky commentary and — on more occasions than you’d expect — real human emotion and startling originality.

Without much range or talent, the Minnesota grad student had no business being a singer. But his anti-racist ode “Chocolate Rain,” coupled with the Zonday’s oddly mannered style and zero-budget production values, turned him into a mainstream star for, well, weeks.

A solid enough alt-pop band in the early aughts, OK Go fully embraced their visual side soon after, incorporating a cheeky flair for visual pranks and Rube Goldberg devices into their (complicatedly) fun videos. And it all began with synchronized treadmills.

Charlie Schmidt’s manipulated cat banging on the keyboard was actually filmed in 1984. Uploaded to YouTube 23 years later, it’s since spawned 4,000 variations, including odes from Weezer and Stephen Colbert.